Photo map: Here’s where tourists go in Seattle

Flickr user Eric Fischer has some photo-oriented data that might confirm everything you ever suspected about people with cameras in Seattle.

Downtown, they’re all tourists. On Capitol Hill, they’re just locals looking to make Instagram art.

Fischer analyzed the geotagging data associated with photos on Flickr and Picassa and determined a) that Seattle is one of the most photographed cities in the world and that b) it’s not all tourists taking pictures.

The blue dots in the photo below are photos taken by Seattlites. The red dots are photos taken by tourists. Draw your own conclusions.

Based on this, we can assume tourists love taking photos of the downtown corridor — and locals love taking pictures of Capitol Hill.

Fischer has also studied photo data from cities around the world. And not that anyone’s counting, but Seattle ranks eighth in uploads on those sites, behind London, New York, San Francisco, Paris, Tokyo, Chicago and Washington D.C.